More than a month ago I brought the wife and baby Al-Rasyid to visit Stadium Merdeka, the independence stadium which was opened in 1957. See The nostalgia that is Stadium Merdeka. Last Thursday I brought them to the stadium again along with our two other kids. Then we visited the nearby Stadium Negara, the national stadium built a few years later.
If Stadium Merdeka is an open stadium, Stadium Negara is a closed one.
Being the first indoor stadium in Malaysia it has been the venue for many international games including badminton tournaments. It has also housed many many concerts.
Now Malaysia has many indoor stadiums and more sophisticated ones too. I really don't know when Stadium Negara was last in use but I understand it still host concerts and meets once in a while.
For me though it is a place of much historical significance.
I'm not sure how many times I've been here before but I know it could be counted with fingers from one hand. What I do remember is watching a rock concert during my A Level study days some 23 years ago.
Here's the wife and kids pretending to play ball.
Then they posed as spectators...
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